A really unusual later chapter in the career of guitarist Robby Krieger – a post-Doors album done for Blue Note Records – and a set that's got more than enough jazzy touches to live up to its placement on the label! Krieger's guitar gets plenty of workout on the album's fusion-styled ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Smoking hot rod grooves – put together by studio maestro Bruce Johnston in the years before he became a bigger Beach Boy! The set's one of many groovy surf/car sets that Johnston cut during this mid 60s stretch – although it's more obscure than most, given its release on Smash Records ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The coolest sounds we've ever heard from Leong Lau – every bit as weird and wild as his previous music, but a bit more funky too – in a really great way that gives a sharp focus to his offbeat energy! The album begins with some great funky drums and keyboards – snapping with some ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Quite a cool one from this hip prog band – a special single in a very cool cover – with great sound throughout! "Felona" begins with this cool bell-like chime – ringing out over strummed acoustic guitar with the tune's joyous lyric – before the whole thing then ... read more7-inch, Vinyl record

A lost gem from the LA scene of the 60s – a set that was originally cast as an exploitation of the heady Sunset Strip scene, but which actually features a fair bit of excellent work by the young JJ Cale! Cale arranged and produced the set, and wrote some tunes too – and the record ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The end of the stairway for Led Zeppelin! A couple of bluesy covers, a strong folk-styled original – and some tried-and-true Zeppelin stormers – on a fairly succinct final album. Early on are a couple of comparatively meditative numbers, and album builds to an exciting, hard-rocking ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(Includes the heavy inner sleeve. Cover has a promo stamp, a small section cut out from the surface, and a light stain all on back.)

Led Zeppelin's final album of the 70s! The band was conscious as ever of modern studio sounds by the this point – and they find a way to deliver their hard blues-inspired heavy rock with some new wave synth and other late 70s touches. It works pretty well, and with songs as great as "Fo ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(Cover variant "E". Includes the heavy inner sleeve. Cover has some light edgewear and a bit of pen on the back.)

One of the most supremely classic of all classic hard rock albums! As huge as the debut was, Led Zeppelin II is the record that proved that the group were going to be in it for the long haul – with a righteous raw power that's still being felt all these many decades later! Nobody else could ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Hard rock perfected! It's around Led Zeppelin IV that you can easily say that the group moved up from being incredibly great to flat-out legendary – really in a class by themselves, although maybe they'd already reached that point with the sublime sounds of the previous three records! There' ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Led Zeppelin walk back just a bit on their more stylistically sprawling tendencies for this one – and it's a fine set of hard-grooving rock from these uber-legends! We're not sure if they got some of the more ambitious ideas out of their system with Physical Graffiti, or if they just simply ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(In the original embossed cover, including the printed inner sleeve. Cover has wear and aging.)

Incredible work by one of our favorite 60s groups! If you don't know The Left Banke, their unique style of "baroque rock" is a wonderful mix of groovy organ, electric harpsichord, and swirling strings – all set as instrumentation for some of the tightest, grooviest little songs you' ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(Original mono pressing. Cover has a large peeled spot near the spine & some wear.)

The great John Lennon album from 1973 – still in an exhilaratingly creative mode with strong Plastic Ono traces, even if the overall effect is more mainstream friendly – ultimately, an album that stands incredibly well on its own, even if its something of a bridge to John's rock and ... read moreCD

Lennon's first proper solo LP, after the breakup of the Beatles, recorded largely by himself, with some help from Yoko, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman, and Billy Preston. One of those pieces of the rock canon that it seems hardly anything needs to be said about it at this point, but we'll ... read moreCD

John Lennon's fabled "Lost Weekend" LP, self produced and another kinda strange mix of weighty material and messy fun, composed, produced and recorded in LA while he was estranged from Yoko! Includes some meditations on love and loss, unpretentious horn accented rock & roll tunes and ... read moreCD

The most polarizing of John Lennon's post Beatles ouvre – the strident, Spector-produced, sprawling mess that is Some Time In New York City – a record that has too much of every idea John & Yoko had at the time, which makes it all the more fascinating after all these years! Angry, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(First US pressing. Cover has split bottom seams, splitting on the top seams, some wear, and discoloration due to aging.)

Late 60s hippie psyche sounds from France – a group purportedly founded by pair of cats, one from San Francisco and one from London, who met at a Soft Machine show in Paris – and the record was produced by Jean Claude Vannier and Bernard Estardy! Titles include "Super Girl", ... read moreCD

A weird little record from underground romantic singer Lewis – an artist who's partially in a European tradition that runs from French singers up through the New Romantics generation – but one who's also a definitely individual, with an approach that's all his own! The album's got a ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

A great title for this one – given that the album's got a full, spacious sound – one that definitely lives up to the "suite feeling" you'd expect! The style here is even more sophisticated than on the group's debut – still a mix of jazzy horns and rockish rhythms, but ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

A great title for this one – given that the album's got a full, spacious sound – one that definitely lives up to the "suite feeling" you'd expect! The style here is even more sophisticated than on the group's debut – still a mix of jazzy horns and rockish rhythms, but ... read moreCD

An incredibly trippy album of late 60s pop – a bit folksy, but also quite open ended – and with dreamy touches that are as evocative as the cover. We know little about Lily & Maria themselves, but the record does feature arrangements and production by pop maestro Garry Sherman ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The one and only album from Peggy Lipton – a singer best known for her work as an actress on TV's The Mod Squad – but a surprisingly great artist on record, too, thanks to some key help in the studio! The set's got an approach that can't miss – core rhythms put together by Hal ... read moreCD

The one and only album from Peggy Lipton – a singer best known for her work as an actress on TV's The Mod Squad – but a surprisingly great artist on record, too, thanks to some key help in the studio! The set's got an approach that can't miss – core rhythms put together by Hal ... read moreCD

Never-before-released NYC proto punk from Liquid Diamonds – a hard-driving trio fronted by Sonny Vincent – just a couple years before his first wave NYC punks The Testors! Liquid Diamonds has the raw, dangerous vibe of the coming punk gen in spades, but there's also some serious guitar ... read more7-inch, Vinyl record

LLittle Feat's third, and maybe best their album – the adventurous country rock, soul, boogie blender Feats Don't Fail Me Know! Oh, this group wasn't going to fail anytime soon – not creatively, anyway. Nope! They really come into their own here – mixing up distinct styles into ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The second album from Little Feat – and it's a great one! Loose roadhouse blues-y and country rock styled songs – infused with their own weirdness! This is one of those great examples of a band that not only loved, but could play down home American music of many kinds – and add ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The Liverpool Scene mix smart and smartass wordplay, taking the piss out of pop & rock stars and the overall cultural atmosphere of the era thanks in no small part to leader Adrian Henri, with some excellent musical backing – ranging from jazzy brass & bass, to acoustic folk rock. ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The words of Allen Ginsberg, set to some wonderfully organic sounds from the Italian scene of the early 70s – played here by a group who's not really rock, nor jazz – but who have a freely collaborative spirit that's a little bit of both! Italian sound library arranger Umberto Santucci ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

(Beautiful reissue – with heavy cover and vinyl, and a replica of the 12 page booklet too!)

A huge amount of material from the lovely Donna Loren – star of both the big and the small screen in the 60s – and a surprisingly great singer, too! The package features singles, unreleased tracks, and Loren's classic Capitol album Beach Blanket Bingo – which has great work from ... read moreCD

A lesser-known girl singer from the 50s – one with a surprisingly great body of work – an all-too-short career that's beautifully collected here by Bear Family! Myrna Lorrie's got maybe a bit more country in her approach than some of the other artists in the Juke Box Pearls series, but ... read moreCD

Arthur Lee and Love's unreleased record from 1973! Black Beauty is a more diverse and soulful set than a lot of what we've heard from Lee's harder rocking 70s years – and it's given a much-deserved top notch release by High Moon Records! It's raw in the best possible sense, with a live feel ... read moreCD

The second album from Love & Rockets – and for the core members, it's the biggest step away from the heavy goth moodiness of Bauhaus to date – but it's still got a distinctive, nocturnal vibe, even if the melodies have some poppier strains. The way they mix of dissonant touches with ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

The second album from Love & Rockets – and for the core members, it's the biggest step away from the heavy goth moodiness of Bauhaus to date – but it's still got a distinctive, nocturnal vibe, even if the melodies have some poppier strains. The way they mix of dissonant touches with ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Incredibly groovy work from The Love Exchange – a 60s Cali group who only ever cut this one album, but who really make things sparkle throughout! There's a female singer in the group, and she's pretty youthful – which adds this lighter level to the band's heady brew of Hammond, guitar, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album

Easily the greatest album ever from Love Generation – a heavenly bit of harmony pop that we'd easily trade for any of our favorites by The Association! The group are always great on all of their records – but on this incredibly sweet set, they really hit a new level – letting ... read moreCD

The second LP by one of the greatest sunny singles groups of the late 60s, reissued with bonus tracks and great remastering! This was the highest charting LP that the Spoonful had during their career, and it's actually the only proper LP of theirs to have been issued on CD before now. That's a ... read moreCD